[jenair]

How did you find your teacher? I'm a newbie teacher and for the life of me ~ never seem to get the students. So i'm wondering...how did you find your teacher?

TIA ~jenn

 

[amymaew]

my midwife recommended a teacher to me. Have you networked with doulas and midwives and even other cbes in your area?

 

[Starfish11]

I did a google search. Where are you located? I did not find many on the web so I am sure having your name out there will be great. Do you have a website?

BTW, I did not go Bradley b/c the closest class was too far to attend on weeknights. I was not crazy about this decision but it was reality. I really felt like there was a dearth of Bradley practitioners out there given how much great stuff I'd heard about this birthing method. I'm glad to hear that you are reaching out

 

[lastrid]

There's a Bradley website that lists teachers in your area. I would try to get listed on that.

 

[CookAMH]

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Originally Posted by lastrid There's a Bradley website that lists teachers in your area. I would try to get listed on that.

: That's how I found mine in PA.

 

[mojumi]

I pulled a list of area Bradley Instructors from the Bradley website. I also received a list of area childbirth instructors (all kinds) from my midwives. I called three or four instructors to see when they had classes starting, what their fees were, and to get a 'feel' for them. There were more differences between Bradley instructors than I expected. The instructor I ended up seeing wasn't even on my midwives' list. I LOVED her.

You could get yourself known in local MOMs clubs, LLL meetings, visit your local birthing circle, ICAN, etc ...

 

[xixstar]

met mine through our local natural parenting group, I recall just really clicking with her the first time we met.

 

[jenair]

thanks ladies! All affiliated teachers are on the bradley site, but there seem to be SO many in DC its hard to get recognized.

But i'll def be contacting the other midwives in the AM

Thanks!!!

 

[MegBoz]

This probably won't help you, but I found mine because I was browsing the website of the greater baltimore yoga center in Timonium looking for regular yoga classes. I clicked the link for 'natural childbirth' & read about bradley. I actually hadn't even heard of it before that! (I hadn't developed any interest in natural CB yet!)

 

[jenair]

Meg - your JUST the type of person i want to find

I was introduced by an internet friend ~ she litereally changed my life. I just think about how luck y i was to meet her. When we did our backup hospital walk through i met a women terrified of giving birth there. At 30+ weeks she STILL didn't know she had other options. I wanted to cry for her...

 

[pssimon]

I found a list of people on the bradley site, but I only contacted the people who had websites with info about them and were convenient to where I live. There seemed to be some crummy generic "websites" on the bradley pages... I went with someone who took the time to put a real site together! Even if you just get a free blog or something that tells about you and what you believe... then people can get a better feeling for if they jive with you!

 

[emilyjace]

Also check out birthoptionsalliance.org. It's a listserve for the area and you can post class openings there.

 

[MegBoz]

Oh yeah - I guess I'll add another source! There's a NAP- MD Yahoo Group, that's how I connected with Jessica as my doula. (I'd already taken Bradley at Timonium yoga center at teh time I joined that list.)

 

[phathui5]

I met our Bradley teacher through my LLL group.

 

[QueridaLeticia123]

Hi! I am late on this process, but I am looking for a Bradley class close to Silver Spring. How long/many are the classes? I am almost 6 months. Whats the cost of the classes? Thanks for any info!

 

[lisalu100]

May as well reply to you here too...!

I was looking for classes around the Columbia area a couple of weeks ago. Book something quickly, the classes are 10 weeks long!

I am actually having to go up to Hampstead (Carroll County maybe) in order to take classes, since I had missed the start of Lorrie's classes in Columbia. Not sure about DC providers though. The bradley site was fairly helpful in finding a provider. The prices I was quoted were $275-$325 per couple for 10 weeks.

 

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